01/15/07 - Table Selection Part 2

Ok, I think I recovered from my Tilt session last nite.....I even had a dream I played 40/80 Limit holdem at the Bellagio. I won in my dream with quad 10's, so I guess it wasn't real. Oh yeah, the table was filled with hookers too.

Yesterday I discovered SpadeIt or SpadeEye. It's similar to Sixth Sense I believe. I downloaded the trial version of it and it's a pretty cool program. It works in conjunction with Pokertracker. Basically you fire up Full Tilt, turn on SpadeEye and it will list all the available tables at a particular limit you select. Then you scan the tables and it averages the VPIP and PF raise % for the players at the table and color codes it. I can see where you have a huge data mined pokertracker database where this will work out awesome. My databases only recognized about 40% of the players, so I will continue to datamine Full Tilt.

It also has a built-in datamining program that is pretty good. I don't see a need for IdleMiner if you have this program. You can open up to 16 tables at once and customize it to datamine only tables >4 people, etc. Then you can start/stop all tables in once click, etc.

The other advantage is SpadeEye is a one time registration fee, where Sixth Sense is a monthly fee. I haven't tried the trial of Sixth Sense yet, but it's coming soon.....

So yesterday, I was firing up tables where it recognized maybe 4 out of 6 players or higher. I was sitting at tables where VPIP averages were over 30 and PF raises were 10 or under. Fish tables, ya know. People were handing me money, and then as you can see from last blog entry, I was getting donked like you wouldn't believe. Unreal. This method makes you table hop a lot. When the fish leave or get busted, time to find another table.

So, is that a good strategy?? To play at these donk filled tables with fish who draw out and never lay down bottom pairs, etc? Odds and variance should work it out to huge wins if you have the best hand, right? Instead of sitting at shark tables with 20/15's or under?